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Foundational Components of Digital Writing Workshop and Online Tools for Composing, Conferring, and Publishing

Choice and Inquiry

Social Bookmarking- Teachers can use to organize bookmarks and students can use to collaboratively share resources for a project
- Delicious.com (Julie's starter page and a more complete example from Mark Ahlness)
- Diigo: (Julie's starter page and a more complete example from Rachel Boyd's Collection
- Social Bookmarking in Education (ideas from teachers)
- Using Social Bookmarking in Schools: Parts 1 and 2 (How to get started)
Blogging(Web 2.0 integration of online tools)
- Mark Ahlness (Grade 3): Delicious and Flickr
- Mark Kreul (Grade 4): Literature Circle Podcasts and Smilebox
- Miss Peavey (Grade 2): Voicethread and Smilebox (for Readers Theatre!)
- Rachel Boyd (Grade 2): Clustr Maps, Google Translators, Videos, and Wordle
- Miss Bishop (Grade 1): Teacher blog, student blog, and student podcasts for fluency
- April Larramore (Kindergarten) and Ms. Shaw's Kindercrew: Created by the teacher to archive projects and resources
- Video Podcasts on Quality Commenting on Blogs (by Third Graders)
Curriculum Based Information Challenges (e.g., Endangered Sea Turtles, EcoFriendly Toys, Green Warrior River)
Google Custom Search

Conferring

Anne Davis' Writing Blogs
Google Docs
Wikis
- Terry The Tennis Ball: Choose Your Own Adventure Wiki
- Ms. Ibrahim Grade 2
- Mrs. Coffman’s Grade 2 (Region 10 in Connecticut) – Traveling Bear
- Grade 2 Technology Teacher
- Griffin Gazette Grade 4 with voicethreads
- Write On…Progressive Stories Wiki
- Mr. Mendell’s 4th Grade Collaborative Wikis
- Great Books Wiki - collaborative wikispace for K-20 teachers and students to responses to great books
Wikijunior Discussion Tabs

Publishing

Specific Writing Projects
Open-Ended Online Composing Tools
- Voicethread
  - Example: Getting a New Haircut (emergent literacy)
  - Example: Weather & Poetry 3rd Grade Class Book
  - Example: Multiplying and Dividing Fractions in Word Problems (Elementary School)
  - Example: Science Lab Experiment (Secondary Grades)
  - VoiceThread Wikispace for Teachers
- Podcasts (made with Audacity or IMovie)
  - Mabry Online Podcast Central
  - More tips for creating a podcast in a hurry
- Smilebox
  - Mark Kreul (Grade 4): Literature Circle Podcasts and Smilebox
  - Kindergarteners Making Paper and Recycling
  - Fifth Grade Rocks (multiple uses of Smilebox)
- Storybird Collaborative Storytelling
  - The Seed, written by an adult for children
  - Goodbye Mrs. Gal-Lima, from Grade 3 students
  - The 4 Friends High in the Sky, from Grade 3 students
  - One Morning in Mrs. O'Keefe's Grade 1/2 Class
  - The Fruit Flies by a Grade 1 and Grade 2 student
- RealeBooks (to read) and RealeWriter (to write)
Digital Publishing Practices
- Class Anthologies (Web 1.0)
  - Pocantico Hills Central School ; Animals in our Backyard; Summer Olympic Sports, Civil War for Kids, Abraham Lincoln, and Children's Encyclopedia of Women (1998-2010)
  - Kids-Learn.org
- Digital Portfolios (Web 2.0)
  - Room 302: Example of many Web 2.0 tools used to compose and publish writing and much more!
  - See the great collection of Web 2.0 published work under the blogs and wikis headings above
  - Tools for publishing and archiving digital work
    - Blogs: EduBlogs and Class Blogmeister and Blogger.com
    - Wikis: Wikispaces and PBWiki
    - Podcasts: Podomatic and BlogTalkRadio (see example)
    - Google Sites
- Audio Anthologies
  - Radio Willow Web
  - Small Voices Podcast (Elementary students - to encourage literacy skills by providing a wider audience)
  - Mabry Online Podcast Central (middle school students)

Our writing projects from the day

Kim's Storybird for Kindergarten: Colors: I Can Read!
Amy's Storybird: Before I Was A Mom
Maggie's Storybird: School's Out for Summer: Get Your Fun On!
Susan's Storybird: Balance: The Story of Mr. Scamper
Linda's Voicethread: Color In Our World

Additional Online Tools to Differentiate Your Students Literacy Responses

Voxopop: Voice-based elearning tool
FlockDraw: Draw in real time with others
Dipity: Find, create, and embed interactive timelines
Postalz: Send digital postcards
Thinklinkr: Create and share outlines
LinoIt: Online stickies